- Name
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Michael Tomkins Contact
- Country
- United States
- Intro
- Born and raised in Hong Kong, and having lived in the United Kingdom for six years upon leaving my home, I now reside in the USA. I've been lucky to travel a lot during my lifetime, vacationing around the world thanks to a father who was in the airline industry.
I sometimes feel I'm the perpetual foreigner - always moving around the world, always identified as "not from here" by my unusual accent. Hence, my username on this site, from the Cantonese word Gweilo or Gwailo (g-why-low), roughly translated as "foreigner".
The four eights were added when I found my username already taken on another site; four eights are traditionally a lucky combination to the Cantonese, the ethnic group that makes up the majority of Hong Kong'ers. (The Cantonese for eight is 'baat', which sounds like 'faat' - the word for 'prosperity').
I run a forum for Mitsubishi Diamante owners:
Mitsubishi Diamante Forum - Member Since
- 2005-01-12
- Equipment
- Olympus E-1, Canon PowerShot SD400
- Note
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